In the European Union, the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) of 1991 sets out the requirements for the collection, treatment and discharge of wastewater, to protect the environment from the adverse effects of ...

Cell therapy with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is being explored as a treatment for many ischaemic conditions of unmet medical need, such as critical limb ischaemia. MSC transplantation in humans has occurred in both ...

Water is a vital component of the industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. In industrial and pharmaceutical sectors water is a commonly used raw material, solvent and ingredient. While in healthcare facilities ...

With an estimated 1.2 million cases annually worldwide, bacterial meningitis is a
medical emergency and primary prevention as well as accurate diagnosis and
treatment of this often fatal disease is paramount. The ...

Science surrounds our daily lives and is an integral component to the development of sustainable communities and societies. Science also contributes to the competitiveness and advancement of economies through their governing ...

Industrial scale cell culture is used for the production of many therapeutic agents such as protein and vaccines. Cell culture medium is a vital raw material used in these production processes. Formulation analysis of the ...

The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has a remarkable ability to persist and grow in harsh environments, including the human gastrointestinal tract. This attribute is regulated, at least partly, by the alternative ...

The Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is a meshless method based on a definition of interparticle area which is closely analogous to cell face area in the classical finite volume method. In previous work, the interparticle ...

Hydractinia is a colony forming marine invertebrate and a member of the phylum Cnidaria. Members of this genus have been models for developmental biologists for over a century and feature many characters of evolutionary ...

This thesis addresses the development of imaging techniques for the early detection of breast cancer, based on Ultra Wideband (UWB) radar, a promising emerging technology that exploits the dielectric contrast between normal ...

This contribution identifies development as an emergent and contested key concept in the social and environmental sciences. Development studies describes a field that includes multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary ...

The growing demand of deep façade retrofits in refurbishment projects across Europe, is often accompanied by low-energy targets and architectural attributes. Factors like variability in context, material, environment and ...

Internationally, science literacy has become socially and economically very important. Many European countries, including Ireland, stress that science and technology graduates are fundamental for economic growth. Nevertheless, ...

This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel
framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is
presented ...

In 2005 an action plan for educational inclusion, Delivery Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) was launched in Ireland to ensure the educational needs of children and adolescents from disadvantaged communities are ...

HBSC Ireland 2010 has found that 13.2% of children report that they are currently on a diet (9.7% of boys and 16.9% of girls). This figure has remained stable since 2006. The percentage of children dieting is higher among ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify differences in food habits and lifestyle behaviours by dieting status among young people in Ireland.
Design: Cross-sectional survey. Participants responded to a self-completion ...